TCNJ News
For Immediate Release
November 12, 2008
TCNJ hosts Fulbright Scholar from Frankfurt
EWING, NJ … The College of New Jersey has been selected to host Fulbright Visiting Scholar Eva-Sabine Zehelein from Frankfurt/Main, Germany for the 2008-2009 academic year. Zehelein is one of approximately 850 outstanding foreign faculty and professionals who will teach and do research in the United States through the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program.
Zehelein is an associate research professor in the Department of American Studies at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Her lecturing and research includes “Science Plays in Transaltantic Perspective;” and “Hannah Penn: An Exceptional Case of Female Political Power in Colonial Pennsylvania.”
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
The Program has provided approximately 286,500 people – 108,160 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 178,340 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States – with the opportunity to observe each other’s political, economic, educational and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world’s inhabitants. It operates in over 155 countries worldwide.
For further information about Fulbright Program or the U.S Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit http://fulbright.state.gov or contact James A. Lawrence, Office of Academic Exchange Programs at 202.453.8531 or Fulbright@state.gov.
About The College of New Jersey
TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 "Most Competitive" schools in the nation by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report, and is one of Kiplinger's Personal Finance's top educational values in the country. In 2006, the College joined an elite group of institutions when it was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Fewer than 10 percent of the nation's colleges and universities share this honor.
